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President's Message
Welcome to the Lancaster Country Junior Golf Tour. We’re excited to present the 2012 edition of the Tour; a great opportunity for juniors to play in a competitive environment that emphasizes etiquette, the Rules of Golf, pace of play and proper scorekeeping.
We’re also excited to bring you a new website and the convenience and capabilities of Shotstat’s tour management program. The look and feel of our web site will be familiar but the technology is a big leap forward. From on-line tournament registration with credit card payment acceptance to communication with members via text messages, we hope to offer a more efficient and complete tournament experience for our players, their fans, and all who help to bring our juniors the opportunity to play competitive golf. Basic instructions for registering for the tour are in the Tour News section on the right side of this page.
Shotstat offers two enhanced options: Premium and Elite, available for a monthly subscription (see the Shotstat link on our website for details). Premium will enable players to statistically track their rounds, as well as enhanced “fan” features. Elite is geared to players hoping to play at the collegiate level. It includes the features of Premium and adds the ability to develop an online player profile (including video) as well as some recruiting features. Please know that we haven’t vetted either of these features; both were developed and are sold and managed directly by Shotstat. We just wanted to let you know they’re available.
Launching a new website is a big job and on behalf of the Board, I want to thank Greg Goodling for his efforts to make it happen. We don’t expect the transition to be problem free and ask for your patience as we learn how to work within Shotstat and take advantage of its capabilities to deliver quality events.
Every season, we struggle to manage the wait list equitably – we know that many of our players have other opportunities to compete and conflicts arise that can’t be reconciled. However, we’re asking for your help to reduce the number cancellations that occur during our traditional “grace period” (from the opening of registration to the final Rules Clinics). By all means, register for those events you intend to play but don’t take a spot from another competitor if you know you won’t be available to play.
Lastly, on behalf of the entire Board, I’d like to thank our sponsors and volunteers for making this possible and for making it special. Best of luck –play well and respect the game.
Kevin Palic, President – LCJGT
Tournament Director's Message
Welcome to the 2012 LCJGT season! We have an exciting schedule set up for you, with many of the Tour stops we have had in the past, and one site that we have not visited in a number of years.
The LCJGT will stop first at Overlook, with its fast and sloped greens. Keep it below the hole! Next stop will be Four Seasons, where our Tour 2011 best score, 2-under 68, was posted.
The next Tour event will be the LCJGT ‘Major’ at Tanglewood. Remember, the LCJGT ‘Major’ offers 1.5x the normal number of points, in the weekly-updated points standings.
After a break over the week that includes July 4, and the PA Golf Assn. Jr Boys Championship, the LCJGT heads to our only shotgun start at Foxchase GC. This venue will be the site of this fall’s Lanc-Leb League Golf Championship. And please be aware – all divisions will play BACK one set of tees. The Senior Boys will play from the black tees, etc, as they will in LL League Championship.
The next Tour stop takes us into Lebanon County, to Royal Oaks, which we have not scheduled since the summer of 2005. We still have several players who played as 9-holers, back in the day, the last time we were at Royal Oaks.
Our last regular Tour stop is Crossgates, which will have, as always, many narrow holes, but still be a very scorable golf course.
The LCJGT Championship, for which players must qualify to play in, will return to the very narrow and hilly lay-out at Meadia Heights Golf Club. That event is always exciting, and sets the stage for the 2012 Junior War of the Roses, which the LCJGT hosts this year. That site will be Lancaster CC, where the LCJGT team will try to maintain their perfect record in this match-play event, and extend its record to 9-0. LCC was the site of the inaugural JrWoR, and will be the 2015 venue that hosts the Women’s US Open.
It should be another great year. It will be good to see all the old faces, again, as well as many new ones. See you in May at one of the mandatory Rules clinics!
Skip Walters
LCJGT Tournament Director |